Introducing Newton: A Graphic Guide

500 Pages·2011·62.93 MB·English

by  William Rankin

Published by Icon Books Ltd, Omnibus Business Centre, 39–41 North Road,
London N7 9DP
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ISBN: 978-184831-982-0
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
It’s the Thought that Counts
On the Banks of the Nile
By the Waters of Babylon
All is Number
A Cloud of Infinity
Squaring the Circle
The Conic Sections
Exhaustion
Plus Ça Change
Skirting the Problem
Geometry at Play
Death of Original Thought
Born so Little
What Day is It?
Childe Isaac
Skool
Windmills
Nature and Art
What’s the Time?
Fireworks
Strange Inventions
Sober Silent Thinking Lad
First Experiment
Low Employments
Teacher’s Pet
Restoration
Cambridge in Turmoil
Sizar
Chums
Ye Official Curriculume
Common Sense
Physics
Crystalline Spheres
Wandering Stars
Reasonable Arrangement
Motions of Mars
On the Revolutions
The Key
Perfect Solids
It Fits
Meet Tycho
Super Nova
Closely Observed Stars
Perfect and Unchanging
The Sleepwalker
Reckoning Made Easier
The Shape of the Universe
Kepler’s Second Law
Harmony of the Worlds
The Rudolphine Tables
Kepler Passes Away
The Wrangler
Father of the Telescope
The Starry Messenger
First and Alone
First Warning
Two Grand Systemes
Going Round in Circles
Conclusive Proof
The First Family
Beyond Understanding
A Trial
Two New Sciences
The Finger
Like Clockwork
Principles of Philosophy
The Whys and Wherefores
The Vortex
Perpetual Motion
The Book of Nature
A Universal Philosophy
Spirit of Nature
Nasty, Brutish and Short
Blazing Star
Swift & Furious
A Trifling Book
The Quantity of Quality
Fatiguing the Imagination
Expanding
Hyperbole
A State of Flux
The Fall
Pretty Nearly
The Lucasian Chair
A Bare Bodkin
Darkness & Light
Paradoxicall Assertion
Flaws in the Glass
The Crux of the Matter
On Reflection
Telescope
Diminished Acquaintance
Going Public
Promotion of Knowledge
Odd Detection
Slave to Philosophy
Put Out
Utterly Lost
Subtle Spirits
Beyond Human Art
Prisca Sapientia
The Earth a Vegetable
Unsociableness
Action at a Distance
Letter
True Worship
Bible a Fake
False Infernal Religion
The Wager
A Fishy Story
Little Smatterers
The Best Bits
Definitively
Absolutely
Laws
of Motion
First & Last Ratios
A Proposition
In Eccentric Conics
Pound Shock Horror Error
Spherical Bodies
Resisting Mediums
Lost in Space
System of the World
Various Phenomena…
…Explained
The Tail
Universal
The World of Law
Fighting the Beast
Glorious Revolution
Friends
Most Unfortunate
Nobody Paying
Threat to the State
Connivers at Abuses & Cheats
Tyburn Tree
The President
God is Space
Newton’s Headache
Gold Ring
Sextant
Chagrin and Mortal Anger
Empirical
Chronology
Prophecies
The End
Letter on England
Rights of Man
Revolting French
Republican Virtue
Nonsense on Stilts
Celestial Revolutions
The Enlightenment
Eppur Si Muove*
The Limit
Lost Planet
Dual Nature
At a Distance
A Piercing Eye
Books
Why a Dog?
Index
“Who surpassed all men in genius”
“Who surpassed all men in genius”
There is a statue of Isaac Newton in the antechapel of Trinity College,
Cambridge. The poet Wordsworth on seeing it bathed in moonlight from his
pillow, wrote…
“… Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever
Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”